Do you still clone drives the old way or use modern imaging tools?

I used to spend like 45 minutes booting from a Hiren's CD and running ghost to clone a failing drive... felt like forever. Now I just plug in a USB with Clonezilla or use a hardware duplicator and it's done in under 10 minutes. But sometimes I wonder if the old method caught more bad sectors since it read every block manually. Anyone else debate between speed and thoroughness when doing drive swaps?

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the_nancy22d ago

Yeah, I'd still run a full read test separate if the drive's acting sketchy.

ray61320d ago

Man, I feel that. Nothing worse than that sinking feeling when you're running a test and just waiting for the click of doom. Solidarity, friend.

sanchez.ivan20d ago

Whoa, you actually sat through 45 minutes of that old school method? @flores.mark you're a braver (or crazier) person than me, dude! I woulda bailed after 10 minutes and just hoped for the best lmao.

flores.mark22d ago

Ditch the caffeinated patience and go with Clonezilla, man. The old way was just watching paint dry while praying the drive didn't click of death on you. I'd rather take modern speed and risk a couple bad sectors than relive that 45 minute panic attack lmao.